Patients who unconsciously refuse to accept a situation as it truly is display:
A) Confabulation
B) Lying
C) Denial
D) Identification
C
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1. Geography 2. Homelessness 3. Having insurance 4. Living in the New England states 5. Low income
The safeguard mechanism by which even the researcher cannot link the participant with the information provided is called:
a. anonymity. b. confidentiality. c. informed consent. d. right to privacy.
A patient with rheumatoid arthritis tells the nurse that the physician told him he has Felty syndrome and asks the nurse what it means. Which of the following conditions does the nurse include in her description of this syndrome?
A) Low grade fever, weight loss, anorexia B) Vasculitis, pericarditis, pneumonitis C) Enlarged spleen, neutropenia, anemia D) Symmetric polyarticular joint swelling, joint redness, joint tenderness
A nurse counsels a patient beginning to take gamma-hydroxybutyrate for narcolepsy. It is important for the nurse to warn the patient that respiratory depression is a potential risk with the concomitant use of:
1. alcohol. 2. beta blockers. 3. caffeine. 4. nicotine.